Player rating: Tim Howard

[Walken]

is 1 good or bad??? help me out @Dithering Dougie

 

[mlyons]

A very strange thing to say indeed.

I'm not suggesting I'd have them in goal instead of Howard when they're injured.

And Begovic has been very good this season, by the way. I won't argue your other points too much as they are actually valid. I don't massively rate a few in that list so fair enough.

But the point is to compare Howard to other goalkeepers in the Premier League this season, isn't it? If they aren't playing this season, it isn't much of a comparison, and I don't think anyone is suggesting that we don't go after a new goalkeeper for next season.

My point is, based on the actual goalkeepers in the Premier League right now, Howard is probably average or slightly better. That's partly because he's playing better than people around here are giving him credit, partly because some previously decent goalkeepers are having terrible seasons, and partly because the Premier League is missing some of its better goalkeepers right now due to injury.

 

[Azzurri]

But the point is to compare Howard to other goalkeepers in the Premier League this season, isn't it? If they aren't playing this season, it isn't much of a comparison, and I don't think anyone is suggesting that we don't go after a new goalkeeper for next season.

My point is, based on the actual goalkeepers in the Premier League right now, Howard is probably average or slightly better. That's partly because he's playing better than people around here are giving him credit, partly because some previously decent goalkeepers are having terrible seasons, and partly because the Premier League is missing some of its better goalkeepers right now due to injury.

Come on, mate. I get what you're saying but we may as well say I'm a better keeper than Neur because he's asleep and I'm awake. You can still compare a fit player to an injured one if they've played in the same league for a while.

 

[Dithering Dougie]

is 1 good or bad??? help me out @Dithering Dougie

Not my decision I'm afraid Walken best ask @mikeh72.

Don't forget to vote for Evertons best current goalkeeper as well.

 

[mlyons]

Come on, mate. I get what you're saying but we may as well say I'm a better keeper than Neur because he's asleep and I'm awake. You can still compare a fit player to an injured one if they've played in the same league for a while.

I don't think you can when you're talking about players over 30 with injuries as severe as Foster and Forster have had, though. You never know if they're going to come back any better than a shadow of themselves. Just look at Valdes.

 

[Kurt.]

Howard is so bad he couldn't even catch a freebie off chico's ma...

 

[Joey66]

Not my decision I'm afraid Walken best ask @mikeh72.

Don't forget to vote for Evertons best current goalkeeper as well.

Do you know I Robles is offering free pies at the league cup game Doug if you vote for him it's a rigged vote!lol

 

[MikeH72]

is 1 good or bad??? help me out @Dithering Dougie

It's a scale of 1-10, so that usually means 1 is the worst

 

[Chang Elephant]

Wondering if this poll should have had a zero option

 

[davids]

This poll really only has any point to it if Roberto Martinez has a vote.

 

[SpurtingLesbian]

This poll really only has any point to it if Roberto Martinez has a vote.

And people don't seem to realise there's no point flinging mud at Tim either, as he couldn't catch any of it anyway so none of it sticks.

 

[AaronTheBlue]

at best 6-7/10

right now 3/10.

 

[MikeH72]

So only around 25% of fans rate him above a 5/10. Wow. I call that a vote of no confidence in Super Timmy Secretary of Defence USMNMSNMSNMSNMT

 

[TheBlueGibbon]

In Martinez's first season he was probably a 7-8/10, last year he would have got a 2, this year he's improved a little but still isn't good enough so he got a 4. The only thing saving him from worse is the memory of Paul Gerrard and friends.

 

[Darth Toffeeman]

He has been a good servant to the club no question about that. Sadly though he is not going to improve anymore and very rarely do you think of him as a match winner. Having seen Martyn, and of course Southall between the sticks you can see the difference a real top class keeper can make. We desperately need to find a top class keeper, more than the number '10' we spent all summer chasing.